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How to Stay Informed About Agriculture, Food, and Farming Issues

Please use AGRICULTURE NEWS DAILY for the great agricultural ad-free news resource that it is. Plus, my hand picked twitter feed that follows, is also a great up-to-the-minute news resource. Both of these resources draw from straight-forward and reliable sources and are the culmination of ten years of online work to produce this unique, independent site, Big Picture Agriculture. A Twitter List

Agriculture Reading Picks

As Prairies Get Plowed for Biofuels, Greens Demand EPA Act | Bloomberg A breakthrough to bring driverless tractors into the mainstream? A startup in Iowa says it has fixes to many of the obstacles. | Star Tribune Nutrition Goddess Marion Nestle on the One Thing She�d Change About How We Eat. | Bon Appetit �Heartbreaking� Drought Forces Canadian Ranchers to Cull Herds | Bloomberg PepsiCo to pump

The Merits of Amaranth

I've always been impressed whenever I've had amaranth, in cookies, and as a morning porridge. It grows in my state of Colorado.

Global Food and Agriculture Photos October 28, 2018

This roundup of global food, farming, and agricultural photos appears every Sunday on Big Picture Agriculture. U.S.A. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'IxJl4Bz1Q4xduf64eCf1BA',sig:'g89N2n-G5-wFswkDNn0YNDYkdnqGVC7Ji7NzTisQyzM=',w:'594px',h:'420px',items:'1052945690',caption: false ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false }

Unloading Livestock in Ohio 1938

Unloading Platform Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association, central Ohio. Summer 1938. Photographer: Ben Shahn. FSA photograph. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

Agriculture Reading Picks

Rural Mainstreet Index Expands for October: Bankers Expect Farmland Prices to Continue Decline | Creighton University DowDuPont to Record $4.6 Billion Charge as Agriculture Unit Suffers; The charge reflects the many challenges facing seed and pesticide makers | WSJ The rise of the robot farmer. Animals farmed, tiny automated machines, fewer chemicals, more efficient. | The Guardian Government

Managed Rotational Grazing with Profitable Dairy in Minnesota

This post is republished from one of my favorite farming organizations, The Land Stewardship Project, out of Minnesota. And the article was written by their editor, Brian DeVore, who is a great writer. He has just recently published a book, Wildly Successful Farming - Sustainability and the New Agricultural Land Ethic, University of Wisconsin Press. I hope to see it under our Christmas tree at